Conservation

The Garden tries to conserve resources wherever we can.

We have increased our office recycling efforts, provide recycling bins throughout the Garden, and donate glass to Useful Glassworks. We are working to not only control invasive plants on lands which buffer the Garden, but to also grow native species for restoration of these and other lands in southwest Idaho. The Garden will use these projects to help educate the public about Idaho’s natural resources.

For the past several years, IBG has collaborated with the Bureau of Land Management on its Native Plant Conservation Initiative Program on three separate projects in southwest Idaho and southeast Oregon.

One of the Garden’s missions is to work towards restoration of lands that lie outside our formalized gardens. Noxious weed control, seed collecting, native plantings in selected restoration areas, bitterbrush planting, all comprise this work. High school students, College of Western Idaho Horticulture Interns, Master Naturalists, and other IBG volunteers have assisted with these on-goingRead more »